interring
Example Sentences
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The little boy was buried by his parents, who believed he would be reincarnated if they followed a ritual while interring the body.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
After regaining control of Taejon in the fall of 1950, the Army began recovering remains from the area and temporarily interring them at a United Nations military cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Unlike interring the ashes, you can’t later decide to retrieve or move the ashes — they commingle with the soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
There is also the fact that the group advocating for interring the remains mostly consists of people of color while the park stewards are mostly white.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
We wouldn’t be interring him in the Atlantic, but a pauper’s grave was just as permanent.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
